Unit/Crew size 134 sailors Leader Cmdr. Troy Jackson Location of deployment Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea Deployed date Dec. 28, 2007 Returned date June 28, 2008 Highlights The Los Angeles-class fast-attack sub returned from a six-month deployment supporting U.S. forces in the Middle East and Europe. Port calls included Bahrain, Dubai, Jordan, Greece and Spain.

NORFOLK When the Truman carrier strike group arrives home this morning, its nearly 7,500 sailors will begin a much deserved rest. The group spent the past seven months supporting ground troops in Iraq, watching pirates off the Horn of Africa, guarding oil platforms in the Persian Gulf and training with multiple navies from the west coast of Africa to the Black Sea.

VIRGINIA BEACH Strike Fighter Squadron 81, known as the Sunliners, is scheduled to return to Oceana tomorrow. The squadron had been deployed for four months the aircraft carrier Nimitz in the Pacific region.    

VIRGINIA BEACH About 350 National Guard soldiers from southeast Virginia were reunited with their families at a ceremony Saturday at Camp Pendleton.

The soldiers had served in Iraq and Kuwait since September.

Unit/crew size 13 officers, 121 enlisted Leader Cmdr. Christopher Harkins Location of deployment Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea Deployed date Nov. 5, 2007 Return date May 5, 2008

NORFOLK About 400 sailors on the amphibious dock landing ship the Fort McHenry returned to Norfolk Sunday. The ship deployed to the Gulf of Guinea on the west coast of Africa on Oct. 17, 2007.

  About 38 Navy sailors and 100 Army soldiers are scheduled to return from the Middle East to Langley Air Force Base at 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday. The Navy reservists are part of Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, cargo handlers serving in Iraq and Kuwait. They are based in Jacksonville, Fla.  

Unit/Crew size: The amphibious dock landing ship has a crew of more than 400 sailors and can carry 500 Marines. Leader: Cmdr. Michael Junge Location of deployment: Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean Deployed date: Oct. 1 Returned date: Sunday

PORTSMOUTH On Friday, the Coast Guard Cutter Bear unloaded its prize: 1.6 tons of seized cocaine with a street value of $100 million. On Saturday, it sent ashore its treasure: more than 100 crew members, home after 66 days from the front lines on the war on illegal drugs. Value (with apologies to MasterCard): priceless.

The Coast Guard Cutter Diligence is scheduled to return to its home port of Wilmington, N.C. this afternoon after a 53-day law enforcement patrol in the Caribbean Sea.

During the patrol, the crew of the 210-foot cutter assisted in counter narcotics operations, according to a Coast Guard news release.